If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-yams, the succeeding years would still be worse because he would have no yams to eat and none to plant. (Nigerian Proverb) - More Nigerian Proverbs...
It is the work of one's hands that decides what one eats for dinner - for some it is pounded yam, for others it is pounded plantain or nothing. (Nigerian Proverb) - More Nigerian Proverbs...
When a soup is unpalatable, and the paste of the pounded yam that goes with it is not smooth, that is the time to know a man who loves to eat pounded yam. (Nigerian Proverb) - More Nigerian Proverbs...